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as in infinite
being or seeming to be without limits
the unfathomable reaches of space
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as in incomprehensible
impossible to understand
for some unfathomable reason the family decided to venture out into the blizzard
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Recent Examples of unfathomable
Read: David Lynch's unfathomable masterpiece Lynch took many, many creative risks over the years, but Blue Velvet is the movie that perhaps best melded grim violence and white-picket-fence cheerfulness—a vision that came to characterize him in the public eye.
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
The country has made unfathomable sacrifices before to bring its people home.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Questions abound around the wildfires still burning their way across Los Angeles, obliterating entire neighborhoods with an unfathomable speed and ferocity.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
The Jets’ record is 4-12, their season reaching a level of futility that seemed unfathomable when the year began.
—Zack Rosenblatt, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
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David Sims, The Atlantic, 17 Jan. 2025
The country has made unfathomable sacrifices before to bring its people home.
—Michael Gfoeller and David H. Rundell, Newsweek, 16 Jan. 2025
Questions abound around the wildfires still burning their way across Los Angeles, obliterating entire neighborhoods with an unfathomable speed and ferocity.
—Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2025
The Jets’ record is 4-12, their season reaching a level of futility that seemed unfathomable when the year began.
—Zack Rosenblatt, The Athletic, 29 Dec. 2024
See all Example Sentences for unfathomable
Recent Examples of Synonyms for unfathomable
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Yet even in this case, heuristic arguments suggest an infinite number of such prime numbers exist.—
Manon Bischoff,
Scientific American,
17 Jan. 2025
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On the flip side your potential losses are basically infinite if the stock keeps going up.—
Allison Morrow,
CNN,
17 Jan. 2025
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Also, incomprehensible to anyone that understands water policy in the state.—
NBC News,
NBC News,
12 Jan. 2025
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Humans may occasionally make seemingly random, incomprehensible, and inconsistent mistakes, but such occurrences are rare and often indicative of more serious problems.—
Bruce Schneier,
IEEE Spectrum,
11 Jan. 2025
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Read: The new age of endless parenting Perhaps most important, measuring isolation isn’t a good way to track loneliness.—
Faith Hill,
The Atlantic,
24 Jan. 2025
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Yet most academy members would likely not want classic rock perpetually refashioned with AI for an endless nostalgia ouroboros.—
August Brown,
Los Angeles Times,
24 Jan. 2025
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Several years later, Hoffa disappeared under mysterious circumstances and was never seen again.—
David Wharton,
Los Angeles Times,
27 Jan. 2025
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The groundbreaking find, the researchers claim, could reshape our understanding of the universe and its most powerful and mysterious signals.—
Eric Lagatta,
USA TODAY,
27 Jan. 2025
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The video brings to mind the claims made in Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism, in which Fisher proposed that capitalism has the uncanny ability to subsume all critiques into itself.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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When spending time with them, Brunelle observed uncanny similarities in their behavior and interests.—
David Faris,
Newsweek,
18 Jan. 2025
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According to Klippenstein, parts of the document are unintelligible due to Mangione's handwriting.—
Gordon G. Chang,
Newsweek,
11 Dec. 2024
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Instead, like 2022’s Smile, the end credits are accompanied by haunting unintelligible voices and sounds throughout.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
17 Oct. 2024
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Its crowd-pleaser potential flies in the face of the IFFR’s reputation in some parts of the industry that the event is focused purely on hardcore arthouse films and more esoteric and niche fare.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
31 Jan. 2025
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Certainly, the many other bravura moments of The Return suggest a storyteller with enough juice to make even his most fanciful, esoteric ideas and characters into reality.—
Alan Sepinwall,
Rolling Stone,
16 Jan. 2025
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Lynch wove tales, not unlike those of his Spanish predecessor Luis Bunuel, which proceeded with their own impenetrable logic.—
Chris Morris,
Variety,
16 Jan. 2025
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This time, Nick tracks Donnie down not to arrest him but to join his criminal enterprise, the Panthers, and stage a heist of the impenetrable World Diamond Center.—
Robert Daniels,
New York Times,
10 Jan. 2025
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“Unfathomable.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/unfathomable. Accessed 4 Feb. 2025.
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